We just celebrated our 18 year anniversary. 18 years! I'm absolutely gobsmacked.
We ended up going to Clearwater Beach for our anniversary. Once again, New Orleans fell through. First off, we planned everything for the last possible second. Another thing, the world is still in a pandemic, and as much as I want to visit the grand ole city, I'd rather wait and do it at a time where it's not in decline if possible.
So we booked two nights at a hotel in Clearwater and drove out for our anniversary. We booked the hotel for the night before our anniversary and the night of. The goal was to get as much beach time as possible. However, as luck would have it our anniversary came right when 90° turned into 60°.
So Friday evening we get to the hotel and check-in. I honestly don't know why it was the evening. For whatever reason we were just dragging our feet on packing and leaving. After checking in we decide we want to start our anniversary with a bang and—no not that kind of bang—we took off to an outlet mall in a nearby county. Nearby is a funny word though as this thing was about 30-40 minutes away.
We got to the Outlet mall and hit up American Eagle where we both went a little crazy and spent an insane amount of money on clothes. We also hit up the Van's store and got some shoes. The next morning we woke up and went right back to the outlet mall, got some more shoes, clothes, etc.
After which we went back to the hotel room got changed and went to the beach. It was lovely. I wanted to try to find this elusive nude beach there, but I'm thinking it doesn't exist. If it does, it didn't exist this weekend because the beach was jam packed with people celebrating spring break.
We walked along the shore of the beach for about 40 minutes, collected a couple of sand dollar fragments and shells for our fish tank at home and then went back to the hotel.
It was so amazing getting some good quality vacation time with my husband. I miss him so much each and every day. I know it sounds pathetic but even after all this time I still hate splitting up to go to work. I still wish everyday that we worked together so I could see him more often.
